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Letters Patent No. 85,459,

dated December 29, 18%.,

To all whom it may concern:

-Be it known that we, ROBERT A. LUCAS and LOUIS S. LEHMAN, of Wooster, in the county of Wayne, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fruit-Driers; and `we do'hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this speciiication, and in whichv.

Figure l represents a perspective view of our dryhouse, and

Figure 2, a vertical central section of the same.

Figure 3 is a front .view of a. portion ofthe dry-house, exhibiting the door-l`astening, and

Figure 4 isan under-side view of the drier.

. 'Ihe nature of our invention consists in constructing the dry-house with a furnace, provided with openings for the escape of smoke in the employment of a double perforated inner wall, with its perforations or apertures supplied with Ventilating-tubes; in furnishing the upper part ofthe inner wall with Ventilating-opening and cut-o` providing smokefiue with two damper-s; and lastly, in the peculiar Inode of fastening the doors of `hereinafter set forth.v

To enable others to make and will now proceed to describe it.

In the accompanying drawings- A represents the outer casing or house, in the lower pam of which' is situated the furnace B, which is supplied with the legs b b, and openings c c., for the escape of smoke.

O desi'nates an air-chambeqconstructed on the rear side of furnace B, and permitting air to passup over said furnace, or into a chamber, i, formed by it, and a plate, c', fastened to the inner wall, a short dista-nee above the furnace, and made alittle shorter than the top of said furnace, to allow the-air to enter th'e main chamber ofthe drier.

D designates the double inner wall, which consists of the inner house d,and partition ll, securedJ at its upper end to the top of casing A, and formed at its lower end with an inclined surface secured to the furnace B.

Thepartitions d d of wall D are provided with holes ertures, which are supplied with Ventilating-tubes d2 d2. v(See g. 2.)

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- d', all constructed and operated These tubes are designed to permit air from the airn chamber' E to enter the inner chamber F, in which are placed the pans or pan g, for holding the fruit to be dried.

` The pan or pans g are provided with openings in their bottoms, to allow the heat to have the desired eiiect on the' fruit placed in them," and are made to rest on supports or strips gi g, secured to wall D,

G designates the smoke-chamber,'situated between the house or inner partition d and partition d of wall D and the inclined'surace of outer house A..

Secured across the upper part of the inside of the ydrier is a piece or partition, di, which is made with an opening, j, 'for ventilation, and over which is hinged a cut-ofvf, operated by aber or shaft, f2..

The inner house d, directly above this partition el?, or thereabouts, is iurnished with Ventilating-openings f3.,

The smoke-nue It is provided" at its centre witha partition, h, on each side of which. is pivote'd or hinged a damper, h", opened or shut by e har or crank-shaped arm, h. By means of these dampers, the excess of heat on either side of the fruit-pans, if there he such, can he let oii, thus avoiding the burning oi' the fruit.`

I I designate the doors ofthe drier, which erefast= ened by means of the rod or bar I', formed at its upper end with an eye or loop, i, catchingl over a hook, gi, on house A, and provided at or near its centre with a.

ringr or loop, iz, for slidingv it up and down in clips on oneof the doors, in order to lock the doors.

What we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pata ent-is- Y l .v 1,. The air-chamber U, constructed on the roar side of furnace B, and communicatiupr with the chamber l over said furnace, and operating substantially fas set` forth.

2. The. -efnploymen d2 d, and consisting of' the inner house d and partition for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing as our own,"v

we affix our signatures, in' presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT A. LUCAS. `LOUIS S. LEHMAN. Witnesses:

HENRY LEHMAN, LUCIAN ADAMs.;

t, in a dry-house, of the perfo" rated inner double wall D, supplied with the air-tubes 'substantially as and l 

